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Patent GB-190613965-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Electric Furnaces.
Inventor: FERRANTI SEBASTIAN ZIANI DE
Filed: 1906-06-18
Granted: 1907-09-18
Abstract: 13,965. Ferranti, S. Z. de. June 18. Electric furnaces. - In the conduct of endothermic reactions in gases, e.g. by the electric arc, the combined gases are cooled quickly by expansion through one or more nozzles, other cooling-devices being employed in addition if desired. The invention is applicable especially to the fixing of the nitrogen contained in air, furnace gases, or the like ; for example, oxides of nitrogen may be formed from air and converted into nitrates and nitrites. The arc preferably is formed between circular electrodes and rotated by a magnetic field, as shown in Fig. 1, but other arrangements may be adopted which do not employ a rotary arc. In the construction shown in Fig. 1, an annular rotary arc is struck between a central electrode a and an annular electrode b, both electrodes having cooling-passages for the circulation of water or other fluid. The inner electrode a carries a coil c for rotating the arc, while gas is supplied by a pipe d. The combined gases are cooled by expansion through a nozzle i, and may be kept cool by passage through a highspeed wheel system, or by mixing with sprayed heatabsorbing fluids, or by contact with cooled surfaces, or by several of these methods. In a modification, the coil c is placed outside the outer electrode b. Continuous or alternating current may be used, but with the latter the arc and magnetic field should be in phase, unless a constant field is used, when the arc rotates first in one direction and then in the other. In another form, the magnetic field is dispensed with and ordinary carbons are used, arranged parallel. Fig. 3b shows in plan an arrangement of carbons m for three - phase working, and Fig. 4 shows another construction, in which the arc is blown along diverging electrodes p by gas entering by a pipe d. An arrangement of plant is shown in Fig. 6, comprising a multistage turbo - compressor n with cooling-devices o which forces gas to an arc chamber h. The expansion nozzle i of this chamber communicates with a wheel system r from which the gas passes to a vacuum chamber s, leading to another turbo-compressor t. The compressors n, t and the wheel system r preferably are mounted on a common shaft driven by a motor v. According to the Provisional Specification, a tubular magnet may be employed, having one pole inside, and forming an annular arc space through which air is passed. The pole-pieces may form an annular expansion nozzle.
Patent GB-190614045-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railroad Ties or Sleepers and Means for Securing Rails to same.
Inventor: BOOMER ISAAC NEWTON
Filed: 1906-06-19
Granted: 1906-10-11
Abstract: 14,045. Boomer, I. N., and Linkswiler, S. P. Sept. 16, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Rails, securing to sleepers; sleepers.- A casing to form a combined sleeper and coupler, for sleepers of any suitable material but particularly for those of concrete, stone, or composition, is adapted for securing the rails to the sleepers without the use of spikes or bolts. The sleeper B, which does not extend across the track, has a casing C of iron, steel, or other suitable metal, which is divided into two irregular parts. The casing C is open at the ends, and laps under the bottom edges of the sleeper, as shown in the inverted plan, Fig. 3 ; it is further provided with jogs or shoulders c making the outer ends smaller, the better to receive the correspondingly wedge - shaped sleeper B, which is inserted through the inner larger ends while the two parts of the casing are separated. The parts are secured by keys F which engage with divergent grooves G formed by turning out the edges of the side parts, and at the same time the rail A is gripped by clamps or brackets H, formed by bending up the upper surfaces of the two parts to conform to the shape of the rail. Tie-bars.-The casing C has a projecting tongue D, with a slot d, Fig. 1, for the attachment of the tie-bar E.
Patent GB-190614615-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Electric Railways Working on the Surface Contact System.
Inventor: ROTHWELL ERNEST
Filed: 1906-06-26
Granted: 1907-06-26
Abstract: 14,615. Rothwell, E. June 26. Electric railways on a road-contact sectional-conductor system with electromagnetically-operated switches. Switches.-Fig. 1 shows the parts of a circuit-breaker in their normal posit i o n. Connexion of the conductor A<1> to the preceding live rail by means of the skate energizes the shunt coil B through a relay E, the current passing through the wires F, f, b<1>, b<2>, contact c<2>, and coil G to earth at b<3>. The shunt current, which is insufficient to energize the coil F and open the contact c'which shortcircuits the magnet C, raises the plunger B', thereby connecting the terminals a, a' by the bar b and establishing full propelling-current from the distributor A to the sectional conductor A'. This series current in the coil F opens the contact c<2> and so inserts the magnet C in series with the coil B, thereby attracting the levers C<2>, C<3> from their normal positions, shown in Fig. 1, to those shown in Fig. 2. The core B' is held up mechanically and the circuit d', d2 of the coil D, which liberates it, is arranged to be broken before the fork c<4> closes the circuit d<4>, d<5>. When the car leaves the section, the contact c<2> returns, short-circuiting the coil C and causing the fork c<3> to drop and so to energize the trip coil D and break the main circuit by opening the contacts b. The relay E is actuated at the same time to break the shunt current. The fork c<4>, which has meanwhile remained down owing to the residual magnetism of the core, is opened by the descending arm B<2>, and the parts are thus left as shown in Fig. 1, set for the next operation. Failure of the supply with a car standing on the section A<1> might cause descent of the fork c<3>, which would operate the trip coil D and open the circuit-breaker on restoration of the supply. This is prevented by a magnet G', the catch G<2> of which on failure of the supply, rises behind an arm c<4> on the lever C<3> and prevents its descent. In the event of a car coasting to a remote section after the failure and leaving the last energized fork c<3> locked up, as above described, the restoration of supply liberates the fork and resets the parts by attracting the catch G<2> completing the trip-coil circuit D. If the power is switched off from the motors when the rear skate leaves the preceding rail section, and if the current then being taken by the car lamps and heaters is insufficient to cause the coil F to hold the contact c<2> open, sufficient current to keep the contact open is supplied by an additional resistance carried on the car.
Patent GB-190617315-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Tent.
Inventor: HALL ARTHUR GWYNNE JEFFREYS
Filed: 1906-08-01
Granted: 1907-08-01
Abstract: 17,315. Hall, A. G. J. Aug. 1. Ground anchoring-devices.-A tent built of a single piece of canvas is shown developed in plan in Fig. 1. The sides of the triangles and oblongs are bounded by ropes to which pulleys C, C<1> are attached. The ropes bounding the oblong of the ground sheet are made with eyelets G<1> for receiving spikes I, carrying two tent poles P, P, which are connected by a cross-bar M for supporting the tent in position. To erect the tent, the ground sheet is spread on the ground and the pulleys are secured by ropes to pegs driven in close by. The spikes I are then passed through the eyelets G<1> up into the lower ends of the poles P, and by lifting the cross-bar slightly and hauling on the rope passing round the pulley C at the apex of the triangle B<1> and secured at one end to its peg, the tent is opened out, and the spikes I are driven into the ground. The other end of the rope is then secured to the peg, and the other pulleys attached to the shelter flap are similarly secured to their pegs.
Patent GB-190622757-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Method of Shaping the Necks of Glass Bottles and the like and in Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: WOODHAM EDWIN
Filed: 1906-10-15
Granted: 1907-08-01
Abstract: 22,757. Woodham, E., and Mignot, A., (trading as Woodham & Co.] Oct. 15. Bottle necks, making.-In apparatus of the kind in which the exterior of the neck is formed by dies a carried by spring arms b, and the interior by a mandrel d, instead of the mandrel d being fixed to the central stem c, as usual, it is free to rotate upon it as the bottle is turned. Relative motion of the bottle and the mandrel is thus prevented.
Patent GB-190622925-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or in connection with Steam Generators.
Inventor: CASMEY WILLIAM HERBERT
Filed: 1906-10-17
Granted: 1907-03-14
Abstract: 22,925. Casmey, W. H. Oct. 17. Flues, internal.-Furnace flues are made conical, the enlargement at the rear end being as great as the diameter of the boiler and the working level will allow ; the increase in sectional area is roughly in the proportion of 7 to 4 and upwards. The sections may be conical or cylindrical. The flue is preferably inclined, as shown.
Patent GB-190700520-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Processes and Means for Manufacturing Steel Castings.
Inventor: LEAN CLEMENT
Filed: 1907-01-08
Granted: 1908-01-08
Abstract: 520. Lean, C. Jan. 8. Metals, working by electicity.-The cost of removing the feeding-heads of castings is reduced by maintaining the necks of the heads molten by an electric current traversing them, until after feeding has been completed. The size of the necks may be very much reduced and the feeding-beads may be disconnected before the necks have been solidified. The currents are preferably supplied by welding-transformers in which the secondary circuits are provided with steel, carbon, or other electrodes arranged to dip into the heads or other parts of the castings.
Patent GB-190702082-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Slip Sheet Attachment for Printing and Lithographing Presses.
Inventor: WATZELHAN JOSEPH
Filed: 1907-01-28
Granted: 1907-06-27
Abstract: 2082. Watzelhan, J. Jan. 28. Set-off, preventing; folding paper; lithographic and like printing.-To prevent set-off, the printed sheets 22 are delivered by a fly from a lithographic &c. printing-machine between the folds of a web 65, on an automatically-lowered table 21. The web 65 is unwound from a roll 66, and passed to and fro intermittently over the pile by guides 69, 70 carried on sliding bars 73, 74 on a reciprocating carrier 25, and is held at each end, as required, by grippers 71, 72, actuated by stops 126, 128 on the carrier 25. The carrier 25 is pulled to and fro on channel-bars 24, by continuously moving chains 35, the upper or lower portion of which may engage wheels 36 on a non - revolving shaft with squared ends 37 engaging with slots 38 in the carrier frames. Ribs 43 on the channel-irons 24 engage the ends of the shafts 37, and thereby hold the wheels 36 continuously in engagement with the chains except at the ends, where switches 45, 47, operated by cams on a shaft 52, first hold the wheels 36 for a short time out of engagement with the chains to allow a sheet to be deposited while the carrier is stationary, and then bring them into engagement with the opposite part of the chain. Cam - bars 86, 87 automatically raise and lower the bars 73, 74 at each end of the stroke, so as to cause the guides 69, 70 to enter the grippers 71, 72 respectively, with the web, at the end of the stroke ; the particular gripper thus entered is released by a catch operated by one of the stops 126, 128 actuating levers 100, 116. The gripper then closes by a spring, on the withdrawal of the guide, and holds the fold of the set-off web, until the other gripper is operated. As the gripper mechanisms are interconnected by a rod, the gripper first mentioned is then opened and allows that fold of the web, with its printed sheet, to drop on the pile.
Patent GB-190702911-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Devices for Producing Vibrations.
Inventor: DANIELS JAY VAN TYL
Filed: 1907-02-05
Granted: 1907-05-09
Abstract: 2911. Daniels, J. van T. Feb. 5. Massage.-Apparatus for producing vibrations for massage and like purposes comprises a lever d carrying an adjustable weight e at one end, and provided at the other end with means for producing rapid vibrations, such as a toothed wheel c engaging a roller g. The lever carries a spring h which abuts against an adjusting-screw k. The vibrations are applied by means of a plate m. In a modification, the lever is vibrated by means of a slotted end which encloses an eccentric,
Patent GB-190709130-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Incubators.
Inventor: WINTER JOHN FRANCIS
Filed: 1907-04-19
Granted: 1907-10-31
Abstract: 9130. Winter, J. F. April 19. Incubators.-The flues F of an incubator, passing through the water-tanks D and leading from the central shaft E, are slightly inclined and have detachable elbow outlets N to facilitate cleaning. A number of ventilating-holes 0 are provided on the side of the egg chambers A and are regulated by a hit-and-miss slide P. Below the holes O are arranged the egg trays B, inclined towards the central shaft E and having curved pieces (not shown) in the corners. The drying-box G in the chamber H is provided with a central handle to facilitate removal.
Patent GB-190712309-A (GB)
Title: Armour Waist-coats.
Inventor: SIBOLD AMBROS
Filed: 1907-05-28
Granted: 1908-03-26
Abstract: 12,309. Sibold, A. May 28. Body armour; waistcoats.-An armour-waistcoat comprises a breast portion a with a back part b and a neck part c, and is closed at the side. The breast portion consists of several layers of material and metal over each other. On the lining h of the breast portion is placed a layer d of wadding or cotton, then a layer g of linen, then a copper plate e covered on both sides with linen ; then follows an aluminium plate f on which is placed a layer d of wadding or cotton, which is finally covered with the waistcoat material proper. The back portion may also be armoured.
Patent GB-190714386-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Hanging Curtains.
Inventor: KALE ARTHUR
Filed: 1907-06-21
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 14,386. Kale, A., and Gilfillan, C. June 21. Curtains, drawing and suspending.-A telescopic curtain-rod 14 is carried in brackets 6 attached to sliding vertical rods 10, which are guided by means of eyes 7 movable along vertical guide-rods 24 fixed to the sides of the window frame, and also by means of slotted brackets 5 which support the lower ends of the guide-rods. The upper ends of the guide - rods are carried by brackets 4, or the ends of the rods may be secured to the window frame directly. The lower ends of the sliding rods 10 are provided with loops 22 by which they may be adjusted, and the brackets 5 carry spring arms 13 having holes slightly out of register with the holes in the brackets so as to produce friction. The sliding rods may be cut away at their lower ends. as shown at 25, Fig. 4, and the holes 23 in the brackets 5 may be elongated to receive the cutaway portion so as to hold the rods in place. Supports 21 for a window-blind may be fitted to the curtain-pole 14, and the curtain may be passed over an additional telescopic rod 19 so as to keep it away from the window.
Patent GB-190716800-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Construction of Traps or Means for the Catching of Earwigs and other like Insects or Vermin.
Inventor: HENDERSON GUY CHRISTOPHER CONW
Filed: 1907-07-23
Granted: 1907-10-17
Abstract: 16,800. Henderson, G. C. C. July 23 Traps for earwigs or other insects &c. consist of a tube, which may be made of bamboo or cane, closed at one end by a removable plug B fitted with a small wire C for clearing the tube, and provided near the other end with a plug D with a small aperture E, the tube being shaved away at F. The tube is fixed in or laid on the ground, and if made of bamboo or cane the knots are utilized as plugs. Several modifications are described in which the wire C or the plug D is dispensed with ; or a small hole may be cut in the side of the tube, when placed in the ground, to admit the insects, the earth in this case acting as a plug.
Patent GB-190720448-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Boxes for the Reception of Postal-packets Breakfast-rolls and other Goods Delivered by Carriers.
Inventor: SCHNEIDER MAX
Filed: 1907-09-13
Granted: 1907-12-12
Abstract: 20,448. Schneider, M. Sept. 13. Letter-boxes and like receiving-devices.-A box for the reception of breakfast rolls, postal packets, &c. may be attached to fencing, Fig. 1, or to a house-door, Fig. 3, and is provided with a shoot or receiving-device, the arrangements being such that the contents of the box cannot be removed except through a door q. The lid b, Fig. 1, is hinged at f to the front wall, and has fixed to it at right-angles a plate c with side plates d. The lid also carries a metal guard piece or rib o with a serrated underportion p, and has a lifting-knob l on its upper surface. When the lid is raised, the plate c closes the aperture. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the door forms the rear wall of the box. The plate c is fixed parallel to a flap b, and a guard n is provided to regulate the opening.
Patent GB-190723892-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Washing Machines.
Inventor: PECK ALMA MATTISON
Filed: 1907-10-29
Granted: 1908-04-02
Abstract: 23,892. Peck, A. M. Oct. 29. Washing-machines; wash tubs and stands; washing- plungers.-The clothes are placed in a tub 10 clamped to a stand 11, and are subjected to the action of a plunger 20 operated by means of a hand-lever 18. The plunger consists of a number of concentric inverted troughs 23 bound together by radial stays. A detachable rod 19 is provided with a socket to fit over a central inverted cup 24, where it is secured by a nut and bolt 27, the latter having an aperture through which is passed a pin carried by a flat spring 30 fixed at one end. The upper end of the rod is slotted and perforated at various heights for adjustable connexion to the hand-lever by means of a bolt 22. The tub is held to its stand by clamps 12 passing through holes in the stand and provided with thumb-screws 14, while their upper ends are hook. shaped for engaging the edge of the tub. One of the clamps is slotted to receive the pivoted end of the hand-lever.
Patent GB-190726283-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Means for Locking Nuts and the like on Bolts, and the like, and for Locking them to Surfaces, or one to each other.
Inventor: MARSHALL DALE
Filed: 1907-11-28
Granted: 1908-08-20
Abstract: 26,283. Marshall, D. Nov. 28. Locking nuts &c.-A device for locking nuts, set-pins, &c. comprises a washer A having an angular projection B to embrace a nut D, and a number of perforations E through one of which a cotter F is passed and clinched by expansion in a hole I in the work H. The hole I is wider than the perforations E. The cotter may have a spring action.
Patent GB-190727534-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Closures for Bottles.
Inventor: WALDMANN GEORG
Filed: 1907-12-13
Granted: 1908-08-06
Abstract: 27,534. Waldmann, G. Dec. 13. Stoppers, bail and lever.-In a lever stopper for use with ordinary bottles, the neck n is grasped below the beading o by two hinged members a, b, and the inturned ends of the usual lever h engage recesses in the part a. On placing the device round the neck and depressing the lever h, the stopper k is drawn down on the bottle mouth by the bail g, and the parts a, b are drawn tightly together by the pressure of a lug d, on the lever h, against the projecting end f of the part b. A spring c tends to open the parts a, b. The stopper may be divided into two parts p, q, Fig. 3, connected by a screw stem r, so that its length may be varied to suit bottles of different sizes.
Patent GB-190800905-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spring Vehicle Frames and the like.
Inventor: TILLOTSON HARRY TRUDEAU
Filed: 1908-01-14
Granted: 1908-05-21
Abstract: 905. Tillotson, H. T. Jan. 14. Motor road vehicles.-Vehicle frames are constructed so that each wheel may have a large range of vertical movement independently of the other wheels in order to dissipate shocks due to irregularities in the road. The body is supported by a rectangular frame 1, the rear end of which is connected by means of a spring 6 to the ends of two bars 4 connected to the front axle by springs 5. The front end of the frame is connected by a similar spring 9 to a pair of bars 7 supported by springs 8 on the rear axle. The frame 1 and bars 4, 7 are pivoted together at the centre either by a shaft 10 or by some yielding connexion. Shoes 11, 12, 13, fixed to the bars 4, keep the bars separated, and are bent at their ends to form stops to limit the movement and to support the bars should the springs break. When one wheel meets an obstruction, the shock is distributed to all the springs.
Patent GB-190801918-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Turbines
Inventor: PARSONS ROBERT HODSON
Filed: 1908-01-28
Granted: 1908-11-12
Abstract: 1918. Parsons, R. H. Jan. 28. Elastic-fluid turbines.-In a multi-stage turbine, the stage bladings are carried by one drum of uniform diameter and the stages are separated by diaphragms of short radial lengths, which are cast integrally with the casing and extend to within a short distance of the surface of the drum. The nozzles or ports in these diaphragms are open towards the drum. A two-stage turbine is shown as an example. The stages k, m are divided by the diaphragm l, the ports in which are open towards the drum. The drum is balanced by admitting steam from the front of the first ring of blades to both sides of the drum. Escape to exhaust is prevented by a labyrinth packing q.